city in bacon's rebellion, 1676, the government met initially at green spring, the home of sir william barclay. this is a view green spring after it was remodeled significantly by the lovewell family and then the lee family. this watercolor done by benjamin henry latrobe in 1796. but this is one of the places where it all happened. but there was some question in the late 1670s over the reconsider section of the new state house and where to put it, it wasn't ultimately constructed until 1684 and on the same spot as the previous one, but being was familiar to the house of burgesses, who had never had purpose built meeting space until 1665. anyway, the replacing it state house would meet a similarly fiery end in 1698. the victim of suspected arson because nothing ever burns just once in virginia before you give up it it has to burn at least twice and give up on it. they did in 1699 influence still members of the government such as ludwig and page plus reverend james blair, the president of new college of william and mary, where strong advocates for shifting the to middle plantation believe it or